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User Requested Player Ranks – Week 10

This year we’re trying something a little different when it comes to player rankings. We’re letting our readers decide which players show up on the lists. This means less work for me (or at least spreads out the work) while ensuring that all requested players show up on the lists and all quandaries are resolved. Hopefully last weeks rankings helped at least a few teams out there win their match-ups and hopefully this week’s do the same!

Remember, if you have any Flex slot questions, continue to post those as comments and we can respond to them individually. Anyways, feel free to start posting your line-up questions, along with any questions/comments about this new format. This week I’ve kicked off the lists with the top five players from last week at each position. You can find the spreadsheet after the jump.

I had a feeling about Derrick Mason this week but now that I read that Cleveland is nice to Tight Ends I’m inclined to start Dustin Keller in my flex spot..

It’s a 0.5ppr league and my other options are Crabtree, Davone Bess or Nate Washington. On matchups alone, I looked past Bess considering the Henne picks and Titans D, and Crabtree with his QB situation and Rams D.. maybe Nate?

Nate Washington is an interesting play this week and there’s really no way to know what he’ll do with the Moss-factor in affect. Mason has a great match-up, but I’m never high on Thursday night guys unless they’re top-tier guys. Maybe it’s just me, but I hate to have a guy have a lousy game, then I’m forced to regret it for a few days until Sunday comes around. I say roll the dice on Washington and hope he puts up another game like in week 8!

Im in a pretty deep league and i have Peyton Hillis and Darren Mcfadden as running backs. Obviously Mcfadden has a bye so im having a little bit of trouble finding a replacement. My options basically come down to Ryan Torain, Willis Mcgahee, B.G.E, LaGarrette Blount, Brandon Jacobs. Any opinions? Or maybe add anyone that you think might be available on my Yahoo league.

Keep an eye on Torain and see if he seems like he’ll play. If he doesn’t though, I would feel good about starting LeGarrette Blount or Brandon Jacobs. I see Blount rebounding this week and having a solid outing. Good luck!

with the way my team looks, would you do a mcfadden/amendola for aaron rodgers/vjax (whom I foolishly Drafted high, then had to drop) hurting at WR and QB. no guarantee vjax performs, but philip rivers is throwing to anyone. this guy wants AP, but i think AP is off limits now. He also has: Vick, m williams TB, desean jackson, frank gore, T Owens, Marques colston,
can you believe, that i’m on top of 3 tied for first? and you have to play roddy this thurs right?

Added those guys. As for your trade, do you have a flex spot? If so, I wouldn’t sacrifice the opportunity to start AP, Charles AND McFadden each week. Who does he like more, Vick or Rodgers? I like Vick more so maybe you can work a deal for him. I love DeSean Jackson and T.O. as well, but not sure he’d trade them.

QB: Matt Schaub, Kyle Orton (Matt over Orton this week?)
WR: Andre Johnson, Steve Smith (NYG), Johnny Knox, Vincent Jackson (Playing all minus V.Jax)
RB: Cedric Benson, Shone Greene, Michael Bush (bye), Fred Jackson, Jonathan Stewart (c.Benson and f.Jackson: should any of my bench take the flex over Knox?
TE: Zach Miller, Ben Watson (Are there better alternatives to Watson? or should i stick with him – some available TE’s are listed in the previous add section of this comment)
K: Rob Bironas
DEF: Kansas City (Pick up arizona, det, or indy? Or should i just stick with KC – considering they play AZ next week)

Added Shaun Hill. As for Washington, I’m not all that high on them this week. Philly is rolling now that Vick is back and the Redskins fantasy points are a bit skewed by DeAngelo Hall’s 4 interception game. Go with the Bills against a beat up Shaun Hill and hope they can force a couple turnovers. Maybe the weather will be bad and keep the score down as well.

Only one on bye (McFadden) and one hurt (Collie). Hopefully this week will net me more than 60 points!! Sorry if there are some repeats from above. I didn’t have time to go through all of them and weed out the ones I am interested in.

I would also like your thoughts on Nate Washington vs Woodhead vs Welker vs Vernon Davis vs Witten. I don’t have Hernandez, but he is available in my league and I have had my eye on him for few weeks. I would most likely drop Cutler for him and roll with 3 TEs.
I am in a Yahoo league, so I can plug Woody in to any RB or WR slot. I am trying to fill one W/T slot and two W/R slots

Hah, you made me rethink the rankings and since then Hernandez has slid a bit. I wouldn’t worry about picking him up with Davis/Witten already on your team. As for the others, go with Washington/Woodhead and another tight end if possible (too many flex spots!)

I had Tony Romo, he’s out. I had Henne as my back up, benched, I picked up Stafford, he’s out. I picked up Fitz, he’s not putting up big numbers. So, right now I have Fitz, Shaun Hill and Sam Bradford. Who do you think I should Start?

Here’s the question that’s gonna have me in knots Sunday morning. I have one flex spot available, so two of these three guys have to sit: Ahmad Bradshaw, Roethlisberger, Mike Wallace. Any argument you can make to help guide this decision would be great. Thanks!

Interesting that you can start a QB in the flex spot. How has the scoring been in the league? QB’s outscoring RB’s on a regular basis, etc? I love Big Ben against the Patriots this week and he’s probably the best play. If Wallace catches a touchdown, it’ll most likely be Roethlisberger who threw it (and not Antwaan Randle El :-))

Yeah, I think the league manager will push to change that before next season. I took Manning and Rodgers with my first 2 picks; another guy has both Rivers and Orton. Those can be pretty horrendous duos to face, especially for the guys who targeted less predictable RBs and WRs first and were left with not even 1 stud QB. Thanks for the advice–I was leaning toward Ben, but it’s nice to have some confirmation.

hey so im tired of having matt ryan’s mediocre production. Like i told you earlier i have Gore, Hillis, and Jamaal Charles at RB i was thinking of trading for Vick? is it worth it alone or would it be more fair if i asked for mike wallace along with vick and for which running back?

I just added Eli, who is my favorite QB of the week…just one spot ahead of Vick. They should both have great games though. Any possibility you can trade one for an upgrade at another position? You could probably get a top-tier starter at RB or WR for one of them straight up.

Added him and he has a great match-up. However, the Carolina running game has been horrendous so far. Who knows though, maybe he can do what D.Williams and J.Stewart haven’t been able to do all year long. I’m guessing he out-performs my ranking, but who knows…

It might sound crazy, but I actually have Miles Austin ranked the worst this week. Dwayne Bowe has been a scoring machine the past month+ and Ward should have a decent game against one of the weaker secondaries in the league. Austin plays a Giants defense that has been clobbering teams as of late, not to mention three out of four of his last games have been terrible. He definitely has the skills to prove me wrong, but I’m just not high on him this week.

Could you add Brandon Marshall? I’m torn between him and Boldin this week. I know Boldin has the better matchup but I also really want to believe that Pennington will give Marshall good opportunities to make plays.

Got Marshall a ways ahead of Evans, but both are risky, as we don’t really know how B-Marsh will be with Chad Pennington at quarterback. That being said, I’d roll the dice with Mike Goodson. He’s the starter and even though the Panthers offense has been horrible, at least he’ll get a lot of carries and has a solid match-up.

I got Blount ranked exactly 1 spot ahead of Forte, so they’re nearly the same in my eyes. At receiver, I think I have the players ranked in almost the same order you have them listed (except for switching Wayne and T.O.) Good luck!

Randy Moss. As far as your flex spot, unfortunately you’re going to have to watch and see if Torain plays or not. He’s questionable, but if he gets the start, you want him as your flex play. Otherwise (obviously) go with Pettigrew 🙂

I got Manning a few spots ahead of Sanchez (he’s playing Houston, not Cincy.) The Texans are the worst pass defense in the league, but Sanchez is a little banged up (bruised calf) and Eli has been solid all year.